Showing 1 - 10 of 521
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481136
-2009, we find that: (1) local-level employer concentration exhibits substantial cross-sectional and time-series variation and … increases over time; (2) consistent with labor market monopsony power, there is a negative relation between local-level employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453407
In this paper, we highlight the potential for linked employer-employee data to be used in entrepreneurship research …, describing new data on business start-ups, their founders and early employees, and providing examples of how they can be used in … entrepreneurship research. Linked employer-employee data provides a unique perspective on new business creation by combining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457030
Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458161
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002-2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334400
. We merge disaggregated referendum results with employer-employee data, customs and balance-sheet data, firm … via input-output linkages, significantly influences the voting behavior of its employees. This effect is greater for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210086
Our paper demonstrates that while failure tolerance by investors may encourage potential entrepreneurs to innovate, financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure endogenously choose to fund less radical innovations. Failure tolerance as an equilibrium price that increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459282
"The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394540
In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the … general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471498
enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables … measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees per firm are subject to very important sampling errors, they can be …) surveyed employees. As an illustration in the second part of the paper, we consider the estimation of the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471772